Cohere
A company building models for enterprise and retrieval
Canada Frontier lab Mixed
WHAT IT IS
Cohere was founded in Toronto in 2019; co-founder Aidan Gomez is a co-author of the Transformer paper. It offers language-model APIs to enterprise customers and invests heavily in embeddings and reranking, the two retrieval stages. Models are delivered both through the cloud and on-premises.
Why it matters
It was early to make the building blocks of enterprise retrieval and RAG a product line of their own, so embeddings and reranking stopped being an afterthought next to the large model.
Key milestones
- 2019
Founded in Toronto
- 2024
Released Command R